VG-99- The trick for making multiple assigns in several patches

Started by sixeight, October 10, 2013, 11:31:40 AM

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ztones

Yeah, sure do!  This is a HUGE time (and mistake) saver!  What makes the VG-99 so great is its versatility, tweakability... which also became its greatest weakness, in that it had to be done for each parameter patch by patch.  Doing it manually is a daunting undertaking.  This address that weakness and provides a tool that in my opinion should have been built in the VG99 by Roland and perhaps, just perhaps would have made the product more popular.  At the end of the day, ppl don't want to be tweaking buttons and entering data for hours on end.  If there is a way to speed up and simplify that process, it should have been made available by Roland.  Short of that, this trick is mind blowingly useful.

It can also become a virtual COMPARE mode.  Meaning, you can quickly compare your changes to the original by saving the saving or pasting the changes you made in your sysex, do NOT save your patch, exit and return to your patch to hear it in the original version, then send the changes you made and immediately, back to back hear the original vs edited version of any patch.  It's that virtual "compare button" feature everyone is asking for.  ;D

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Quote from: ztones on September 13, 2019, 08:19:39 AM
Yeah, sure do!  This is a HUGE time (and mistake) saver!  What makes the VG-99 so great is its versatility, tweakability... which also became its greatest weakness, in that it had to be done for each parameter patch by patch.  Doing it manually is a daunting undertaking.  This address that weakness and provides a tool that in my opinion should have been built in the VG99 by Roland and perhaps, just perhaps would have made the product more popular.  At the end of the day, ppl don't want to be tweaking buttons and entering data for hours on end.  If there is a way to speed up and simplify that process, it should have been made available by Roland.  Short of that, this trick is mind blowingly useful.

It can also become a virtual COMPARE mode.  Meaning, you can quickly compare your changes to the original by saving the saving or pasting the changes you made in your sysex, do NOT save your patch, exit and return to your patch to hear it in the original version, then send the changes you made and immediately, back to back hear the original vs edited version of any patch.  It's that virtual "compare button" feature everyone is asking for.  ;D

After one becomes a MIDI guru - this same strategy works with other MFX that use SYSEX to a Win/Mac Editor